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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: TheSarge on September 02, 2008, 06:03:01 PM
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Time’s Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner. That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig. The screaming headline: “Babies, Lies and Scandal: John McCain’s Vice President.â€
Wenner has contributed $5300 to Obama’s campaign since 2007.
The cover was sent to select news organizations by Mark Neschis, the head of corporate communications for Wenner Media and former director of television in the Clinton White House. An email from Neschis that accompanied the cover read: “Thought I would send over our Us Weekly/Sarah Palin cover story, on stands Friday, if helpful in your coverage. Might be useful as an illustration of how the news is playing out. (Us Weekly has 12 million, mostly female readers)â€
“How the news is playing out.†That’s an interesting way of putting it. In one sense, it’s accurate. The mainstream media have been focused on pseudo-scandals about McCain’s running mate. Does it really matter at all that Palin’s husband, Todd, had a DUI in 1986? Who cares? And yet I’ve seen and heard news organizations mention — even discuss — the issue several times over the past couple of days.
The “news is playing out†that way because irresponsible journalists publish cover stories promoting “Babies, Lies and Scandal,†without any evidence of an actual “scandal.†Maybe US Weekly will publish news of an actual “scandal†by Friday, when the magazine is scheduled to hit the newsstands. But the three it mentions on its cover are not scandals. (â€Under attack, admits daughter, 17, is pregnant†and “Investigated for firing of sister’s ex-husband†and “Mom of Five: New embarrassing surprises.â€)
There are legitimate questions about how Palin was vetted. But many news organizations are using the vetting issue as an excuse to make insinuations about Palin’s family and her role as a mother. Instead of asking whether McCain knew that Palin wanted “an exit plan†from Iraq in December of 2006, for example, reporters are obsessing about Bristol Palin’s fiancé and whether Sarah Palin can serve as vice president and be a good mother.
It’s ironic, of course, that the same establishment news organizations consumed by such tabloid issues not long ago refused to investigate reports that John Edwards was having an affair and had a child out of wedlock. Why? The story was originally broken by the National Enquirer and deemed too tawdry to touch. And, perhaps as important, Edwards was running for the Democratic nomination for president, with an agenda favored by the liberal media establishment.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/512gfsvi.asp
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:bird: Idjits..................Please............please run with this
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hehe... bring it. :bird: The Dems will fail in their attacks on an American family. They are well on their way to become the most irrelevant party on the face of the planet.
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The media is hell bent on an Obama presidency. it's really sickening. And the media hatred of women is just so out of hand, i never realized it was this bad until this year.
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The media is hell bent on an Obama presidency. it's really sickening. And the media hatred of women is just so out of hand, i never realized it was this bad until this year.
I wish you could have seen Diane Sawyer on GMA this morning. If they had painted her green she would have looked like the Wicked Witch of the West so consumed with hate as she was.
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But Obama's past drug use (which he freely admitted) is no big deal? No, they celebrated his book as "refreshing candor" from a politician.
Asshats.
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Does anyone have a video that includes the audio from his book where he talks about his drug use?
Everywhere i see some ahole blogger talking about palin, i'm going to bring up his drug use and his racist church. I don't know why that was dropped in the first placed. F that.
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Heh. I found this one. :-)
[youtube=425,350]4kXIW5MBvjs[/youtube]
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Hanity had a good one,
22 years ago the guy who would marry Sarah Palin had too many beers and got a DUI.
22 years ago, Barrak Obama was in college...doing coke.
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Hanity had a good one,
22 years ago the guy who would marry Sarah Palin had too many beers and got a DUI.
22 years ago, Barrak Obama was in college...doing coke.
Ooh, burn.
They tried this shit with GWB. If the 20-year-old DUI stories won't stick to the President, I don't think anyone's going to be bothered by the VP's husband making the same mistakes.
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I really hope they keep on this...this will turn americans against them faster than Obama's inexperience issue.
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Heh. I found this one. :-)
[youtube=425,350]4kXIW5MBvjs[/youtube]
Heh. Thanks!
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White folks greed, runs a world in need. -----Barack Obama
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let 'em rip at her. this is only playing into mccain/palin's hands; with every attack, it draws a larger and larger television audience to her speech tonight, and lowers expectations of her. the she will knock the country's socks off.
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The only "lies" in there are the ones fabricated by the propagan...err..."investigative" journalists that are employed by US Weekly.
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McCain Camp Knocks Down Enquirer's Palin Rumor (http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/03/politics/fromtheroad/entry4413030.shtml)
(ST. PAUL, MINN.) – John McCain’s campaign threatened legal action against the National Enquirer today for running a story about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, allegedly having an affair with her husband’s business partner.
“The smearing of the Palin family must end. The allegations contained on the cover of the National Enquirer insinuating that Gov. Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie,†said McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt.
“The efforts of the media and tabloids to destroy this fine and accomplished public servant are a disgrace. The American people will reject it.â€
(more...) (http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/03/politics/fromtheroad/entry4413030.shtml)
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The National Enquirer responds
ENQURIER RESPONDS TO MCCAIN/PALIN (http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3ne.htm)
Wed Sep 03 2008 18:19:21 ET
"The National Enquirer's coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin's extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor's daughter revealed her pregnancy. Following our John Edwards' exclusives, our political reporting has obviously proven to be more detail-oriented than the McCain campaign's vetting process. Despite the McCain camp's attempts to control press coverage they find unfavorable, The Enquirer will continue to pursue news on both sides of the political spectrum."
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But Obama's past drug use (which he freely admitted) is no big deal? No, they celebrated his book as "refreshing candor" from a politician.
Asshats.
The media does nothing but figuratively lick his asshole clean. Any story regarding Palin tells of her "inexperience" or her daughter's pregnancy and any on Obama is hero worship. Folks, this is gonna be a very ugly election period.
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They figure they have to destroy her, because it is clear from last night that she will destroy them. And they can't talk issues with her. She has the issues. So they have to talk about her, and destroy her.
And this can't be playing well, especially to the audience the Dims have to capture. You think Women are enjoying this? How about minority voters in general? Lots of folks in the press are probably having a sick feeling too. Lots of folks in the press wanted to get into the job to do what Palin has done.
The speech was sort of like watching dominos fall. Everything in a nice line and down it goes. No real florish or polish, just strait talk and good sense.
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Speaking of uglier.....
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1116858&srvc=2008campaign&position=8
Yes, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has a lot on her plate: a pregnant teen daughter, a son on his way to Iraq, an infant with Down syndrome and a looming national election.
But must her hair suffer? With her long, straight, often pinned-up locks, Palin looks one humid day away from fronting a Kiss cover band.
“It’s about 20 years out of date,†said Boston stylist Mario Russo of the Alaska governor’s ’do. “Which goes to show how off she might be on current events.â€
Please join me in posting a comment on there. Mine is on the next to last page because they run it backwards. Sorry, but take a look at the picture of the woman who wrote this piece of trash article, tell me she should be saying anything. :whatever:
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FOX news had an interview with the editor of US magazine yesterday (and replayed it this morning) and Megan Kelly just shredded this guy... i expect they will replay it a lot today.
but somebody has a new poll out this morning about the media's treatment of Sarah Palin and the respondents are overwhelmingly against the media on this one. its almost 90% of the people who agree that media is being unfair to her and her family - this is backfiring on the MSM in a huge way.
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FOX news had an interview with the editor of US magazine yesterday (and replayed it this morning) and Megan Kelly just shredded this guy... i expect they will replay it a lot today.
but somebody has a new poll out this morning about the media's treatment of Sarah Palin and the respondents are overwhelmingly against the media on this one. its almost 90% of the people who agree that media is being unfair to her and her family - this is backfiring on the MSM in a huge way.
I saw this interview last night.
I thought Megan was remarkably controlled when the "editor" said "we went with what we had, and didn't have time to check if they were true or not"..... :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
Think of what their demographics most likely are....primarily 15-30 year olds maybe?
That's Obama's key group. And they are being fed lies about everyone but Obama....nope scratch that...they are saying he's "qualified" I'm sure.
Someone should go after that rag! :censored:
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(http://politicaldemotivation.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hope-and-change.jpg?w=608&h=426)
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(http://politicaldemotivation.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hope-and-change.jpg?w=608&h=426)
That picture is off the charts on the doofus scale. :-)
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FOX news had an interview with the editor of US magazine yesterday (and replayed it this morning) and Megan Kelly just shredded this guy... i expect they will replay it a lot today.
but somebody has a new poll out this morning about the media's treatment of Sarah Palin and the respondents are overwhelmingly against the media on this one. its almost 90% of the people who agree that media is being unfair to her and her family - this is backfiring on the MSM in a huge way.
I saw this interview last night.
I thought Megan was remarkably controlled when the "editor" said "we went with what we had, and didn't have time to check if they were true or not"..... :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
Think of what their demographics most likely are....primarily 15-30 year olds maybe?
That's Obama's key group. And they are being fed lies about everyone but Obama....nope scratch that...they are saying he's "qualified" I'm sure.
Someone should go after that rag! :censored:
I would say your demographic is right on.. its all about the non talented hollyweird kiddies.. Paris, Britney, Lindsey Lohan. and lots of nobodies we've never heard of.